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Employment of contemporary technological tools in conducting research and dissertation preparation Marios Pittalis m.pittalis@ucy.ac.cy. Topics. Office Applications Internet searching Internet Applications and Free Software Applications

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  1. Employment of contemporarytechnologicaltoolsinconductingresearchanddissertationpreparation MariosPittalis m.pittalis@ucy.ac.cy

  2. Topics • Office Applications • Internet searching • Internet Applications and Free Software • Applications • Statistical Techniques in analysing quantitative data

  3. Office Applications • Word Processing • Spreadsheets • Presentation tools

  4. Word Processing • Modifying thebuilt-in styles. • Headings • Paragraph formatting and style labelling • Borders and Shading • Tables • Manual Draw • Auto-tables • Tracking changes • References

  5. APA 6 Headings Level   Format    1    Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings 2 Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading 3   Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. 4   Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. 5   Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period.

  6. Word Processing • Split document • Page Setup and Breaks • Margins, sessions, header and footer • Bookmarks and Hyperlinks • internal and external • Objects  Equation • Formatting Images

  7. Speadsheets • Chart Wizard • Formulas, Paste Special etc • Format Menu • Comments • Rename Sheets • Change Settings (i.e., background) • Sorting data • Freeze Panes • Data validation

  8. Presentations • Viewing the presentation • Importing Slides • Slide Show • Transitions • Special Effects • Master Slide • Adding Notes • Multiple Monitors

  9. Changes appear in all the slides To change View | Slide Master Create a slide master and save it as PowerPoint Template (.potx), and then use it as master slide. A presentation could have more than one slide master. Slide Master

  10. View | Presentation Layout | Slide Master Layout of objects Different slides arrangements

  11. Fonts, colours and line styles. Live Preview – preview the changes before applying Design themes Define changes Default

  12. Transition to the next slide On mouse click or automatically Way of transition Slide transition

  13. Independent objects Movements by default Customize Animation Movement • Tip: • Movement should not disturb the presentation • Too much movement and effects are annoying

  14. Custom Animation Type of movement Order of objects

  15. Lists, tables, figures. You can useSmart Art Tools to modify Smart Art Objects. Smart Art

  16. Insert | SmartArt

  17. Clip Art or pictures. Search

  18. Multiple presentation screens Insert objects from other software Save Presentation

  19. Electronic Journals • Subjects or Search • SpringerLink, e.g., Int. Jour. Sci. Math. Ed. • Jour. Math. Beh. • Data • Article First • Arts and Humanities Citation Index • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts • Search ERIC, Gale Group • www.doaj.org

  20. Ultranet • DISSERTATIONS • Dissertation Abstracts UMI • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

  21. Web • Search Engines • Meta Engines

  22. How to search • “ a b”, stemming • Advanced search • ~facts for synonyms • OR (capitals) • + and – (exclude) • filetype:pdf • Site specific search (site:something.com)

  23. Google & Microsoft • Google • Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ • Books http://books.google.com/ • Microsoft Live Search, www.bing.com • Yahoo • Answers.yahoo.com

  24. Meta Engines • www.sidekiq.com • www.wikiseek.com • www.snap.com • http://www.surfwax.com • www.copernic.com

  25. Google • Docs and Spreadsheets • Calendar • Translate • Labs (e.g., Notebook) • Desktop

  26. Internet Applications • Online Office • Zoho www.zoho.com • ThinkFree www.thinkfree.com • Goffice www.goffice.com • WebOS • www.youos.com • www.eyeos.info • www.desktoptwo.com • www.goowy.com

  27. Internet Applications • Online Storage • Omnidrive www.omnidrive.com • Esnips www.esnips.com • MediaMax www.mediamax.com • Web E-mail • www.yahoo.com • www.gmail.com • www.hotmail.com • myemail.com • http://www.30gigs.com/

  28. Internet Applications • PC on a USB • MojoPacwww.mojopac.com • Ceedowww.ceedo.com • U3 applications www.u3.com

  29. Statistical Analysis of quantitative data • SPSS • Structural Equation modelling software: • MPLUS, EQS, AMOS • Multilevel modelling data: Mlwin • IRT, Rasch Analysis, Quest • - Analysis of qualitative data: Atlas

  30. Two-sample t-test • We often want to know whether the means of two populations differ. For example, there are many questions in which we want to compare two categories of some categorical variable (e.g., compare males and females) or two populations receiving different treatments in context of an experiment. • The two-sample t-test is a hypothesis test for answering questions about the mean where the data are collected from two random samples of independent observations, each from an underlying normal distribution.

  31. Paired t-test • Dependent samples (or "paired") t-tests typically consist of a sample of matched pairs of similar units, or one group of units that has been tested twice (a "repeated measures" t-test). A typical example of the repeated measures t-test would be where subjects are tested prior to an intervention program, and the same subjects are tested again after the completion of the intervention program.

  32. ANOVA • Analysis of variance is a method that allows us to compare the mean score of a continuous (or ordinal with many scale points) variable between a number of groups. What ANOVA does is test the null hypothesis that several group means (the mean score of pupils in type A intervention classrooms, type B intervention classrooms and comparison classrooms) are equal in the population. • Alternatively, we could restate null hypothesis as: “The differences among the means are due to sampling error or other random events”.

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